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The 9 Most Interesting Things Jim Harbaugh Said (And Didn't Say) About The Ohio State Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, November twenty. First, I'm your
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  host Tom Moore. The game against Michigan is in four days A little later
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  on today, we're gonna be talking to Ryan Day, Jim Knowles, and
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  a handful of Ohio State players at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. We'll be
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  streaming that live for you at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle, and then
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  we'll have I'm guessing a live instant reaction show Buckeye Weekly. Tony Gerderman and
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  I breaking down what we saw, what we learned, what we heard,
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  and we're gonna be able to contrast what we saw and what we heard and
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  what we learned inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center with what we saw and we
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  heard and we learned inside Michigan's football facility. On Monday. Tony and I
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  just got back from Ann Arbor. Got to see and talk to in live
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  and in person, Jim Harbaugh, Sharon Moore, JJ McCarthy, Blake Korum,
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  and Mike Sanders. Still lots of stuff interesting coming out of that.
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  We're going to have a whole bunch of shows for you this week, a
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  whole bunch of bonus episodes on the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Feed going to give you.
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  You know, everyone seems to love these shows where we have clips from
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  the interviews and talk a little bit. Set those sound bites up a little
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  bit so you can really hear the you know what the question was that sort
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  of sets up the answer. I'm gonna be doing a whole bunch of those
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  for you, so make sure you are refreshing your Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Feed all
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  week long. We're gonna have a bunch of bonus episodes on the Buckeye Weekly
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  Feed as well. You know, everyone's traveling this week, has a lot
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  of free time to kill in the car and sitting around the house and all
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  that, so we'll be giving you plenty of content this week as we count
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  down the days to the game against Michigan on Saturday. All right, first
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  show these this week, talking to one of these players and coaches. We're
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  gonna start with Jim Harbaugh. Jim was sometimes he's sometimes he's a little prickly.
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  Sometimes he's in a great mood, sometimes he's in a weird mood.
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  You never quite know what you're gonna get with Jim Harbaugh. He was more
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  personable than you might have expected given everything that's going on in the realm of
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  Michigan football. Got some interesting answers out of him and got some interesting not
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  answers, but responses. And the first one is going to be an example
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  of this. The question the reporter asked was, you know, what what
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  kind of level of respect do you have for Ryan Day? You know,
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  Higo State, you know the program he's running at Ohio State. That was
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  a question. Here's the answer there's that. It's uh, it's all about
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  our preparation for Ohio. You know, the days, the minutes, the
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  hours, everything leading up to this game. You know, that's where our
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  focus is preparing ourselves and planning, gonna practice and then execute. So uh,
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  I mean anything else is irrelevant. You know, when you get into
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  this kind of this kind of big game week, it feels like a lot
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  of the things that were not said there might speak louder than the words that
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  he actually did say. Thought that was pretty interesting. It'd be interested to
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  see Ryan Day says. I'm going to guess he's going to be asked a
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  similar question on Tuesday. We'll see how Ryan Day responds to that. Again,
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  I guess there's not really a whole lot of love loss there between those
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  two guys. So those two guys are not going to have to shake hands
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  or across paths at all on Saturday because Jim Harball is not invited to the
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  Ohio State Michigan game this year. He's serving me third of his three game
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  suspension from the Big Ten for the counter stallions, incidents and fallouts and all
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  of that. So no Jim Harbaugh on Saturday. So how has Jim Harbaugh
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  tried to prepare his coaches for the new roles and everything they're going to be
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  facing this Saturday against Ohio State. Yeah, it's really it's really a battle
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  tested team and empowering people. It's really it's really that, you know,
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  I powering our coaches, empowering our players, and just amazing job that they've
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  done, amazing effort, effort and where players have gone about then coaches players.
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  I mean, I just think back over the last you know, five
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  six weeks especially, I mean it's just been like a high pitched siren,
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  you know, like a like a deafening, ear piercing noise, and after
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  a while start tolerated and and then before you know it, just block it
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  out. So it's stay on course. That's uh what our when our team
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  has done and and uh, you know, just keep the priorities right and
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  keep the priorities straight, which is faith, family, and football. There
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  is always a lot of distractions around this game every year. Everyone wants to
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  talk about it. It is the only thing that anyone is thinking about in
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  Columbus, in the state of Ohio and the Arbor and probably across at least
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  the non spartan portion of the state of Michigan. So there are always a
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  lot of distractions. This year though, for Michigan, got the hardball thing.
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  You've got the looming specter of whatever is going to come next. They
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  just had a linebacker's coach fired in the middle of next week. How confident
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  are they that they're gonna not get I'm not gonna have any more personnel changes
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  before the game. Well we don't really know that, but that's just sort
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  of lingering around right now. So how do you deal with that many distractions?
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  How are they dealing with all of the potential distractions going on during Ohio
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  State week? This is one of these answers. I'm gonna just let you
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  know he references the thing that he's about to say that you're gonna say,
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  that's super weird. It is apparently from ted Lasso, so it is not
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  a completely weird thing, but it was still caught a lot of people off
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  guard. So here you go, Jim Harbaugh and how the Wolverines are dealing
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  with their distractions this week. I mean, it's it's uh, I go
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  back to that. It's it's like the ted Lasso show, you know,
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  believe. What comes out of that is believe. And I'm just so proud,
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  so proud of our team despite that noise, our locker rooms in one
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  piece and uh, you liketed for me locker rooms a lot like my mom's
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  bathing suits. Like to see him in one piece. And we've got that,
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  and it's amazing. And there's so many there's so many lessons to be
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  learned, many life lessons that that our young guys are learning at at this
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  age. And it's how the world works and keeping those priorities straight, faith,
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  family and football, and we're battle tested, uh and ready to go.
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  And now it's just it's all Ohio. The week's all about Ohio working
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  really hard. To get ready for this game, using the hours, the
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  minutes, the days to hone our focus, get prepared playing practice, and
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  then go execute the game. Jim Harball got Michigan from the level of almost
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  but not quite to Big Ten champion two years in a row, beat Ohio
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  State two years in a row. Now he's facing the challenge of sustaining that
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  success. How difficult is that? Yeah, that, I mean, stay
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  on stay on course. Else one thing about the about the noise and it
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  starts to it'll be tolerated or or the and it just gets blocked out and
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  staying on course. Staying on the high road shortens that time to make that
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  happen earlier. With the question about respecting Ryan Day and the Ohio State coaching
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  staff, Hardball gave kind of really a non answer. Here's another one where
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  the non answer is a non answer. But the questions he's not answering is
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  kind of interesting because it feels like if the answer was no, it's not
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  a concern at all, you would have probably heard that. So how confident
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  is Jim Harball that there won't be any other staff changes coming this week like
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  there was with Chris Partridge a week ago? We are in position to be
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  in position. That's what Uh, that's what we know. Eleven and oh
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  they're eleven and h and you know, everything is all focused in preparation is
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  on this this game as it should be. There has been a lot of
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  frustration expressed by a whole lot of people about a whole lot of different elements
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  of this whole Connor Stallion's affair and all of the fallout from that. So
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  in Jim Harbaugh's mind, what is the hardest part about him not being able
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  to defend himself because he really hasn't been allowed to speak publicly about any of
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  this stuff. Really to this point, how frustrating has that been to not
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  be able to come out and sort of share your side of what's happening.
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  Yeah, like I said, I mean it h So you're piercing at first,
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  then it becomes tolerable, then then you block it out. Stay on
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  course, staying on the high road is one way to shorten that time down.
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  But you know, keeping the priorities right, I mean, faith,
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  family, football, that's that's you keep those priorities straight, then other things
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  become irrelevant. Here's another one where Jim Harbaugh didn't really want to dive into
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  it, but I thought the question itself was actually kind of interesting. The
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  reporter asked him, you know, how does this game there's a lot on
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  the line in this game. How much does this game go into determining both
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  the short and long term future of the Michigan football program. That's ah,
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  don't have the don't have a crystal ball. It's all about this game.
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  That's where our focus is, getting prepared, getting ready to execute, and
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  and I think our teams battle tested, and there's gonna be tough to be
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  looking forward to it. All right, one more where again the non answer
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  is only interesting because of the question that precedes it. Has Jim Harball been
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  given assurances by the administration at Michigan that his future at the school is secure?
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  All the focus is on Ohio State? And can say that as many
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  times as uh, you know that is this is where we're at. That's
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  the focus, that's the and that's part of the life. Lesson to uh
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  focus on the task in front of you. And when you got a task
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  in front of you, it's a big task. You gotta you got to
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  use every day, every hour, every minute, the plan practice, get
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  yourself, get yourself right, get yourself in position to go out there and
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  play with the best of our ability. And finally we're gonna wrap this up.
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  One with one that he actually did answer. He was asked about Ohio
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  State star wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior. Does Marvin Harrison Jr. Remind him
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  of anyone? And how do you deal with the challenge of trying to cover
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  a receiver as talented as he is? Reminds me a lot of his dad.
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  Great player, You got you gotta be covered. You know, you
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  gotta slowing down probably the better word. Do do our best to uh to
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  do that and everything works together. U pass rush, Uh. The faster
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  the more pressure they can put on the quarterback, the the you know,
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  the better the coverage is going to be. Same with the coverage. The
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  better the coverage is going to be, then that allows the pass rush to
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  get home. So it's gonna like any like any game, any anytime you
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  play a team, you know that team defense is going to be going to
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  be critical. It all, it all works together. Well. We will
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  be back a little later on on Tuesday with that live coverage of the Ryan
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  Day Press conference and Jim Knowles and the Buckeyes. That will be at noon
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  YouTube dot Com slash Bucket Huddle, and then Tony and I will be back
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  after that with an instant reaction show recapping what we heard, what we saw,
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  what we learned, counting down getting you a little bit closer to the
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  game on Saturday noon on Fox. And of course we will be back a
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  little later on on Tuesday with some in It's another one of these bonus episodes.
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  Let you hear a little bit from some of the Wolverines. We'll be
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  doing those for the Buckeyes as well, so you're gonna be hearing a whole
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  lot from a whole lot of players and a whole lot of coaches. Listen,
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  every single one of them gets you another ten to fifteen minutes closer to
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  kickoff. So it's all I can do. I can't make the clock go
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  faster, but that's that's what we need to help try and bridge that gap
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  for you, get you a little closer to game day. So that will
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  do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a
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  great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.